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another example of grifters seeking each other out. At this point if you are a reputable firm, do you want Trump as a client?

Meadows is the candidate to go down. He needs to get K's under control and fix his swing path to get the ball down. Those are good MiLB assignments - at least for as long as Perez can hold onto a gig. If Perez falls off, then you evaluate which of he and Meadows is doing better at that point. Keith is also scuffling horribly - 2/45. But his K rate is under control - his xBA is 245 and his BaBIP 190 so he has had some pretty terrible luck. I think he is less in need of some obvious fix that needs space to work on the way Parker is. The question with Keith is whether he pulls out of it before his confidence goes into the death spiral.

True - capital losses are tax deductible, political contributions are not.

Trump could only wish he had Reginald Rose writing his scripts.

If Labour wins big how long before we start hearing about Brentrance?

Could be worse, at least we still have a Military age population. China's and Russia's are both collapsing and Russia is killing off those that are left as fast as they can. One of the reasons that is almost never talked about but which I believe has to be a serious constraint on Xi. What kind of casualties can the Red Army sustain among all those only children before every mother in China is in Tianamen square? How much does Xi want to find out?

It's a lot easier to critique other people's decisions than your own...

There is always talk in big cases about "one juror", but it's not actually as easy as it's made to sound. You have to find the person that goes for one of your arguments, but that's only step one, you have to pick a person that goes for your arg and then stands up against the other 11 of his/her peers who become family for hours every day for weeks who are telling him he/she is nuts. It's actually a pretty tall order to win on a single a hold-out. You're more likely to need two or three to stand together to up your odds of hanging a jury.

I hope that thought has crossed SY's mind. He keeps his real thinking so well hidden you can't take very much from what he actually says. To listen to the post season interview you'd think he want to bring every back and he loves all the current players. We know that's smoke, and that's about all we do know.

A setting to suppress video results would be nice. Of course the number or Youtubes is probably growing much faster than the number of new text based sites so seeing a lot of them in search results is probably to be expected.

Even at UM, where there have been, there is no voice that speaks for more than a small number of students in such a polyglot assembly. Just as an example, there was a lot of press about the Graduate Assistant strike at UM - but I don't think a class was missed in the Engin school as Engin grad students weren't interested - they're in a very different situation than Grad Instructors in the Lit School but you'd never know that divide existed from the reporting to the outside. These institutions are so big and varied within they are more like little countries with just as many competing interests.

He's got a point there. Of course, those $$$ also make it an interesting question whether any student paying full tuition is actually going to be expelled. 🤔

Heaven forbid as a lawyer they have to work a case involving murder, abuse, or other mayhem. They'd be far too upset to make it to court. Maybe at Columbia they only teach Real-Estate law.

You and Lalonde both.

OK - my bad. I thought he did.

who is getting to vote? I'm not particularly excited getting into the weeds of Brown's org chart. The vote goes to the "Corporation", whoever that is. But Brown's endowment committee apparently proposed divestment a couple of years ago and the U Prez would not submit that to whoever the "Corporation" is so you may have a 'one-of' situation at Brown. I would guess that at a place like UM, it's a Regent's issue and only a Regent's issue. They pretty much set their own agenda - though probably based on what the admin asks to bring them in a given month. And I doubt a vote by group as narrow as the Regents at UM would satisfy many protesters - and practically speaking, with an issue like that if they were of a mind to do it they already would have.

because most schools with major money in endowments don't want to give up investment decisions to anyone for anything - it could cost them real money and real money speaks louder to TPTB than foreign policy politics!

Bringing Danielson to the Wings without a year at GR would be a first for SY, but there's a first time for everything!

I'd like to take some comfort in that except that his infield fly ball rate is really high and those outs aren't bad luck - they're soft contact outs. Parker is hitting under everything - extremely high fly ball rate, low GB rate. Could be he is late, could be he needs a mechanical adjustment to raise his swing path.

I think it's pretty simple. He has to stop hunting inside when the book on him is to pitch him outside because he won't swing there. I don't really see any complexity - if he won't swing at outside strikes, he will continue be called out on them or end up down 0-2 where he's reduced to guessing on off-speed. If he were trying to cover outside and missing, then you have a mechanics/coaching issue to work through - but seems he can hit the outside pitch when that's his focus. He's letting the perfect be the enemy of the good, or of success at all for that matter.

MTU, you've read my mind, I was going to make a very similar post. Protest has to be directed at something where there is some prospect of actual leverage or at least some 1/2 way concrete outcome to have any value, otherwise it's just performance. Civil disobedience has to be violation of unjust laws to be meaningful, not just vandalism against the nearest University Library - what's the point of that? The historical truth is that protest against the War in Vietnam never moved the public or US Gov because of the war itself, it was eventually opposition to the draft that did because it was US kids being impacted. And this isn't even our war or our people. They'd have accomplished as much by writing their Congress critters and letting them know their votes are at stake because beyond that the larger public doesn't care about these kids or their views the way America cared about the targets of discrimination in our own society or the American boys dying in Vietnam. The attempts to draw parallels to those movements is just a miss. And of course letting blatant anti-semitism and Hamas sympathizers into their midst nullified what little interest there was in paying attention to them.

We don't want perpsective, we want CLICKS!

Elections in the US, elections in Israel, and elections in Gaza.

interesting. I haven't noticed much shift in google search results - maybe a windows vs linux thing? Does it help to turn off all the 'ad personalizations'? in Chrome? I also delete everything except cookies at the end of every session and periodically purge all the caches (other than cookies) that google doesn't clear even after it tells you it has has from the Chrome browser 'settings' page. It really mind boggling how much stuff google stores and how many places they hide it to make it harder to stomp.

At one point last season before he broke out of his funk, Hinch opined that Torkelson had 'too many voices in his ear'. Given the tiger hitting coaching by committee approach can that have improved? I don't know that the fix is that hard - swing at more strikes is a pretty simple place to start. You are probably correct it is mostly between his ears. He can't not understand that he is constantly behind because he is taking too many strikes early. And it's not like his zone judgment is deficient. Just swing the damn bat when the ball is in the zone.